Shoe-ironing apparatus.



J. S. HANSEN.

SHOE IRONING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED AuG.24 1912.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT @FFTQE.

JOHN S. HANSEN, OF BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO 0. A. MILLER TREE- INGMACI-IINE COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

SHOE-IRONING APPARATUS.

' Application filed August 24, 1912.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JOHN S. HANSEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brockton, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Shoe-Ironing Apparatus, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the several figures.

This invention relates to apparatus for use in treating shoes, particularly in performing the ironing or finishing operation upon the uppers of shoes. The apparatus commonly employed in shoe factories to support a shoe for the ironing or dressing operations comprises a form usually constructed to stretch the shoe and to support it smoothly while the upper is being treated. Apparatus of this character, however, is too complicated and expensive for use in many places, as for instance, in retail stores where it is frequently desirable to iron or smooth the upper of a shoe before placing it in a show-window or show-case.

Accordingly, it is the chief object of this invention to devise a simple and inexpensive apparatus for use in performing the ironing or analogous operations upon shoes. The particular manner in which this object is attained will be clearly understood from the following description, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1' is a front elevation of an apparatus embodying the invention; and Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view showing the devices for supporting the shoe form.

The apparatus shown in the drawings comprises a panel 2 upon which is mounted a support for a shoe form a and for an electrically heated ironing tool 6, a switch base 8 carrying the usual circuit controlling and indicating devices, and a rheostat 10. The tool. 6 is connected with the rheostat and circuit controlling devices in the usual manner. The support for the shoe form comprises a bracket plate 12 provided with a boss in which a form supporting rod 14 is rotatably mounted. This rod is held against movement out of the bracket plate 12 by a set screw 16 threaded through the wall of the boss and having its inner end positioned Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1915.

Serial No. 716,844.

in an annular groove formed in the rod. The shoe form l, which may be of any convenient style, is removably mounted on the outer end of the rod 14: which for this purpose is reduced, as indicated at 18, and has a small key 20 fast thereon. A socket is formed in the shoe form 41 of suitable shape to receive the part 18 and the key 20, a metal bushing 22 shaped to fit snugly over these parts being set into the form at the end of the socket. This arrangement maintains the shoe form against rotation relatively to the rod but permits it to be readily placed on or removed from the rod.

The support for the ironing tool 6 consists of a U-shaped bracket 24: having its ends notched to receive the handles of the tool. A. hole is drilled through the shank of the bracket to receive the rod 14 and a winged screw 26 threaded through the bracket bears upon the rod and serves to clamp it in any angular position. One or more dowel pins projecting from the bracket plate 12 into the bracket 24: support the bracket in fixed position relatively to the plate; or, if desired, these two parts may be made integral.

In using the apparatus, the shoe to be ironed, dressed, or otherwise treated, is placed upon the form a and rubbed with the heated tool 6 or any other tool designed to effeet the desired result. W hen the ironing tool is not in use it is rested in the bracket 24. The form with the shoe on it is rotated I into different positions to present the various portions of the shoe to the action of the tool and, if desired, it may be locked in any position or its rotation may be retarded by turning the winged screw 26 up against the rod 14:.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. An apparatus of the character described comprising a bracket plate, a rod rotatably supported in said bracket plate and having a portion constructed to support a shoe form, and a tool receiving bracket supported on said rod at the front of said plate.

2. An apparatus of the character described comprising a bracket plate having a boss formed thereon, a rod rotatably supported in said boss, means for holding the rod against movement out of the bracket plate, a bracket shaped to receive an ironing tool having an aperture for the passage In testimony whereof I have signed my therethrough of said rod, said rod having a reduced end portion and a key thereon, a of two subscribing Witnesses.

shoe form having a socket shaped to receive JOHN S. HANSEN; v 5 snugly the end portion and key of said rod, Witnesses: o V V and means for clamping said rod against ro- J OHN H. GORDON,

tative movement. CHAS. H. HOLMES.

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